Dual closes with a spellbinding song, A Riogain Uasail , said to be composed by the poet Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill as a response to an earlier and famous song of his, Mo Ghile Meár, long associated with west Kerry. The songs refer to the defeat of Charles Stuart, or Bonnie Prince Charlie, at the Battle of Culloden in 1746.
"It's such a beautiful song," Fowlis says, "and it was so good to sing a song with such strong connections to west Kerry, and with Culloden just a stone's throw from Inverness, where I live now. It's something that's very real for both of us. One thing that I felt on this album was that we didn't have to try to create some link. It was there all along, and once we started, we realised we could have kept going forever just researching those links the exchanging our songs."
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